Merrylands East Public School Stage 1 – Year 2 (Miss T Babic, Miss R Cowan, Mrs A Lee) Unit of Work (2 weeks) Monday 16th August to Friday 27th August Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August Wellbeing Task Ask your parents what you can help them with today. How can you show kindness towards the people in your house today? How are you feeling about the learning tasks today? Tidy up your toys today and make sure they are put away neatly. Have a dance party with some of your family members. What moves can you do? Morning 8am-10am Singing - The Climb https://youtu.be/PpAEncw-H5Q (if possible) English Reading & Viewing Listen to the story The Bus to The Zoo. https://youtu.be/6nJDXJPjv0E (if possible) Speaking & Listening Tell someone where you think the animals had been at the beginning of the story before they got on the bus. Writing Re-watch the story and write a list of the animals in the book by their classification – reptiles, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, insects. Singing - Let It Go https://youtu.be/gS8nZ8p-xnU (if possible) English Reading, Viewing & Writing Listen to the story The Bus to The Zoo and write down the rhyming pairs you hear. E.g.nine and line. Write 10 pairs of rhyming words, be careful of the spelling. Speaking & Listening Tell someone why the bus driver keeps telling the animals to move to the back. Spelling/grammar Practise your spelling words. Spell them out loud. Write a sentence using at least five of the words. Handwriting Copy the poem below in your Singing- Lion Sleeps Tonight https://youtu.be/yynOSgti1jk (if possible) English Reading & Viewing Listen to the story The Bus to The Zoo. Speaking & Listening Tell someone how it would feel to be squashed at the very back of the bus. Writing Use your imagination to design and draw a map of a zoo. Remember to label it and have walking paths between the enclosures. Add as many animals from the story as possible. Here are some zoo maps to help you with your design. See resources page for enlarged images. https://taronga.org.au/sites/def Singing Keep On Moving https://youtu.be/hmT7jx4kP1s (if possible) English Reading & Viewing Listen to the story The Bus to The Zoo. Speaking & Listening Tell someone why you think the author chose to use rhyme. Writing Choose your favourite animal from the story. Write a description and make it as detailed as possible. Draw a picture of the animal. Label your picture with adjectives to describe the noun, e.g. fluffy tail, sharp claws. Singing- Happy https://youtu.be/cmCDqX3ngfA (if possible) English Reading & Viewing Listen to the story The Bus to The Zoo. Speaking & Listening Tell someone about how the elephant could fit on the bus at the end of the story. Writing Use your imagination to write about what happens next in the story. Use some of the animals from the story. Remember to be creative. Spelling/grammar Practise your spelling words. Spell them out loud. Ask someone in your family to read you a word and see if you can spell it out loud without looking. education.nsw.gov.au
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Merrylands East Public SchoolStage 1 – Year 2 (Miss T Babic, Miss R Cowan, Mrs A Lee) Unit of Work (2 weeks)Monday 16th August to Friday 27th August
Monday 16th August Tuesday 17th August Wednesday 18th August Thursday 19th August Friday 20th August
WellbeingTask
Ask your parents what you canhelp them with today.
How can you show kindnesstowards the people in your housetoday?
How are you feeling about thelearning tasks today?
Tidy up your toys today and makesure they are put away neatly.
Have a dance party with some ofyour family members. Whatmoves can you do?
Morning8am-10am
Singing - The Climbhttps://youtu.be/PpAEncw-H5Q(if possible)EnglishReading &ViewingListen to thestory TheBus to TheZoo.
https://youtu.be/6nJDXJPjv0E(if possible)
Speaking & ListeningTell someone where you thinkthe animals had been at thebeginning of the story beforethey got on the bus.
WritingRe-watch the story and writea list of the animals in thebook by their classification –reptiles, birds, fish, mammals,amphibians, insects.
Singing - Let It Gohttps://youtu.be/gS8nZ8p-xnU(if possible)EnglishReading, Viewing & WritingListen to the story The Bus toThe Zoo and write down therhyming pairs you hear.E.g.nine and line.
Write 10 pairs of rhymingwords, be careful of thespelling.
Speaking & ListeningTell someone why the busdriver keeps telling theanimals to move to the back.
Spelling/grammarPractise your spelling words.Spell them out loud.Write a sentence using atleast five of the words.
HandwritingCopy the poem below in your
Singing- Lion Sleeps Tonighthttps://youtu.be/yynOSgti1jk(if possible)EnglishReading & ViewingListen to the story The Bus toThe Zoo.
Speaking & ListeningTell someone how it would feelto be squashed at the veryback of the bus.
WritingUse your imagination to designand draw a map of a zoo.Remember to label it and havewalking paths between theenclosures. Add as manyanimals from the story aspossible.
Here are some zoo maps tohelp you with your design. Seeresources page for enlargedimages.https://taronga.org.au/sites/def
Singing Keep On Movinghttps://youtu.be/hmT7jx4kP1s(if possible)EnglishReading & ViewingListen to the story The Bus toThe Zoo.
Speaking & ListeningTell someone why you thinkthe author chose to userhyme.
WritingChoose your favourite animalfrom the story.Write a description and makeit as detailed as possible.Draw a picture of the animal.Label your picture withadjectives to describe thenoun, e.g. fluffy tail, sharpclaws.
Singing- Happyhttps://youtu.be/cmCDqX3ngfA(if possible)EnglishReading & ViewingListen to the story The Bus toThe Zoo.
Speaking & ListeningTell someone about how theelephant could fit on the busat the end of the story.
WritingUse your imagination to writeabout what happens next inthe story. Use some of theanimals from the story.Remember to be creative.
Spelling/grammarPractise your spelling words.Spell them out loud.Ask someone in your family toread you a word and see ifyou can spell it out loudwithout looking.
Spelling/grammarBrainstorm words that havethese sounds. Don’t forgetsome of these sounds can beat the end of a word. Drawpictures to go with your words.
‘ou’ / ‘ er’ / ’ oo’
E.g ‘ou’ as in out‘oo’ as in zoo‘er’ is often found at the end ofwords
Practise your spelling words.Spell them out loud.
ReadingFind a book that you have athome and read it.
Spelling/grammarPractise your spelling words.Spell them out loud.
HandwritingCopy the poem below in yourneatest handwriting.
The poem is titled AfricanAnimals.
ReadingFind a book that you have athome and read it.
Brainstorm words that havethese sounds. Don’t forgetsome of these sounds can beat the end of a word. Drawpictures to go with yourwords.
‘oi / ‘air’ / ‘ar’
ReadingFind a book that you have athome and read it.
Mathematics: Number TalkHow many bubbles does thebutterfly have? How did youwork it out? Was yourstrategy efficient?
Investigation:Problem-solvingHow many bubbles doeseach pop-it have?Does the robot or butterflyhave more bubbles?How did you work it out?Can you find another way ofworking it out?Record your answers andideas.
Mathematics: Number Talk
1 _ + _ _ = 45What two numbers could beadded to make 45? Write asmany combinations as youcan.
Investigation:Problem-solvingAndrew decorated 20biscuits. He lined them upand put icing on everysecond biscuit.Then he put a cherry onevery third biscuit.Then he put a chocolatebutton on every fourth biscuit.So there was nothing on thefirst biscuit.How many other biscuits hadno decoration?Did any biscuits get all threedecorations?
Draw a picture to help youwork out this problem.
Mathematics: Number Talk
How many piggy banks aremissing from the middle? Howdo you know?
Investigation: PatternsWhich comes next in eachpattern of dominoes? Drawthem in your book.
Work out the domino pieceswhich would go in the middle ineach case to complete thepatterns. Draw them in yourbook.
Mathematics: Number Talk
36What important things do youknow about this number?Write them down (seeexample for number 53 inresources).
Investigation: Problem-solvingFind three pairs of socks athome. Now mix them up sothat no pair is the same asanother pair. How manydifferent combinations canyou make?
Now try it with four pairs ofsocks. How many differentcombinations can you makenow?
Draw a picture to show yourthinking.
Mathematics: Number Talk
These numbers are out oforder. Put them back in order.One number is missing. Whatcould it be?
Investigation: Problem-solvingArrange the numbers 1 to 6 ineach set of circles below. Youcan only use one numberonce.Each side of the triangleshould equal to the number inthe middle of the triangularshape (see completed one fornumber 10 in resources).
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Break12:00
Water break/fruit Water break/fruit Water break/fruit Water break/fruit Water break/fruit
Afternoon12-1:10pm
Creative artsUse an empty box to makethe bus in the story ‘The Busto the Zoo’.
You may use a cereal, tissueor cracker box and bottle lidsfor the wheels.
someone in your familyhappy? Write your ideas anddraw a picture.
Spelling/grammarPractise saying and writingout the words below.
List 1 List 2
agoalonealongaroundaboutawayagain
togethereveryonepossiblerightmightdreams
These words come from thestory: crack / grow /disagree
Write THREE sentencesusing one word in each.
ReadingFind a book you have athome and read it.
Copy the poem above in yourneatest handwriting. The titleof the poem is Kindness.
Spelling/grammarPractise your spelling words.Spell them out loud.Write a sentence using atleast three of the words.
ReadingFind a book you have athome and read it.
‘ind’ / ‘ick’ / ‘ist’
ReadingFind a book you have athome and read it.
write down the rhyming pairsyou hear.(e.g show / grow)
HandwritingCopy the passage below inyour neatest handwriting. Thetitle is Being Kind.
ReadingFind a book you have athome and read it.
Ask someone in your familyto read you a word and see ifyou can spell it out loudwithout looking.
Brainstorm words that havethese sounds. Don’t forgetsome of these sounds can beat the end of a word. Drawpictures to go with yourwords.
‘ack’ / ‘ow’
ReadingFind a book you have athome and read it.
Break Water break/fruit Water break/fruit Water break/fruit Water break/fruit Water break/fruit
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Middle Mathematics- Number Talk
How many bubbles can yousee? Try not to count eachone. Explain how you gotyour total.
Investigation: Number Busting
You are going to bust thesenumbers. Use the picture tohelp you.
14 / 28 / 32 / 45
Find some items you have athome to help you (e.g. pasta,pencils, LEGO).Organise and describe yourcollection. Reorganise yourcollection in as many differentways as you can. Draw andrecord your thinking.
Mathematics- Number Talk23-19
What strategies could youuse to solve this problem?Think of 3 ways you coulduse to solve it and recordthese.
Watch the video and followthe steps with the teacher onhow she solved 23-19 usinga strategy you may haveused in a number talk.Use her strategy of constantdifference to solve theseproblems and draw yourthinking.
13 - 944 - 929 - 6
Mathematics- Number Talk
6 67 634What do you know aboutthese three numbers? Writedown at least four facts foreach number (see resourcepage for ideas).
Investigation: Building Towershttps://sites.google.com/education.nsw.gov.au/get-mathematical-stage-1/contexts-for-practise/building-towers?authuser=0(if possible)Watch the video to help youunderstand how to play.You will need a dice (clickhere for an online dice) ,some blocks like LEGO andsome paper for this game.
Think about how many blocksyou have for your towers andhow many more you mayneed to build it. Whatstrategy will you use?
Challenge:Build the towers and play bysubtracting the blocks.
Mathematics- Number Talk
23 + _ _ = 8 _
What could the missingnumbers be? Record all ofthe possibilities.
Investigation: Money
Miss Cowan has 5 coins inher pocket. The total of hercoins is less than $4. One ofher coins is gold.
What might the 5 coins looklike?
Draw and record all of thepossibilities.
Challenge:You have been given $5 tospend at the canteen. Whatitems will you choose to buy?https://merrylandseast.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/
Mathematics- Number Talk
How many dots can you see?Try not to count each one.
Explain how you got your total
Investigation: Olympics
Athletes in Australia a fewyears ago won a total of 29
Olympic medals.
Out of these medals, 4 of themwere Gold.
How many Silver and Bronzemedals might they have won at
PDHPEFollow the movements in thevideo and enjoy dancing withsomeone at home.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymigWt5TOV8(if possible)Creative ArtsMaking a paper treeDraw tree stems and leavesand cut them out. (If youdon’t have colour paper,colour in the white paper.)
Fold the leaves in half andglue them on a piece ofpaper. You may use differentcolours for the leaves.
HistoryWatch the video, Episode 16https://iview.abc.net.au/video/ZW1813A014S00(if possible)Tell someone what yourfavourite food is. In the video,what did Angel and Tyra eatfor their breakfast and lunch?
In the video, Rhys lives inCanada where it is very cold.Write down the things thatare the same and differentbetween your school andRhys’s.
PDHPE: Overarm throwing
Stand side on to the directionyou are throwing. Raise yourthrowing arm at shoulderheight behind your head, withyour elbow slightly bent.
Step toward the target as youbring your throwing armforwards. Release the ballwhen your hand is in line withthe top of your head.
